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whimsicalism
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That may be true, but in the US there are typically math courses before calculus.
replygirl
on April 11, 2022
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But then we get a calculator.
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Even then, it is typically not a symbolic calculator so if your answer is a closed form function of variables, you're SOL with a TI-84.
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Maybe we went to radically different schools but I certainly had to calculate by hand using the quadratic formula countless times where calculators were not allowed to be used.
Anyway it distracts from the point so it's not relevant.
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